BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a compact K-5 school in BLYTHEVILLE, Arkansas, part of BLYTHEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 307 students spanning grades 3 through 5. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 418 students.

BLYTHEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,295 students. BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 79%. Beyond that, the school records 11% White, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 34% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Mississippi County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 22.3%; actual is 6.0%, a gap of -16.4 points.

In the broader community, Mississippi County reports that median household income runs about $52,548, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Mississippi County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,930 students), BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BLYTHEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. BLYTHEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 36% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 307). White enrollment moved from 16% to 11% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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